Category: Education

PETALING JAYA: A 13-year-old Sarawakian is among five winners of a patch design competition organised by US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) for its mission to the moon and Mars in 2024.
The design by Wei Rui Teng from Miri was chosen as a winner along with those by Ishhaq Ziyam of Sri Lanka, Neal Apte of the US, Madison Morgan of the US and Paxton Summers of the US.
Their designs were picked from a pool of nearly 10,000 entries by children from the age of seven to 13 from around the world.
The competition named ‘Design A Mission Patch’ was held online by Tynker, a Kids coding platform.
The winners will have the opportunity to invite their fellow students to a video chat with a Nasa expert on its work and the details of space travel.
The video chats are scheduled for the week of May 20 which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 10 mission.
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SMK Tinggi Sarikei teams with (fifth and sixth from left) Leong and Joyce after the prize-presentationceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
SARIKEI: Two groups from SMK Tinggi Sarikei won gold medals during the 3rd World Young Inventors Exhibition (WYIE), held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from May 2 to 4 this year.
Their inventions ‘Bamboo Shoot Peeler’ and ‘Flexy Sock Aider’ won two gold medals in the industrial design category.
According to the school’s principal, Ting Sing Teck, their two teams comprising 15 students were among eight teams from Sarawak competing against teams from 21 countries including China, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Thailand, .
“This competition was organised by the International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition Malaysia,” he said.
“It served as a platform to develop 21st century thinking skills such as creativity and critical thinking, encourage Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs) and promote learning of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) among students, in line with the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025,” Ting explained.
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MOU Signing between EPITOME COLLEGE and SERBA DINAMIK IT SOLUTION SDN BHD.
EPITOME COLLEGE is the 1st in Malaysia to provide graduation certificates with QR CODE.
Pilot implementation of NIDCERT academic, blockchain-powered system to issue genuine academic credentials and to prevent the use of fake certificates.
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KUCHING: The E-Sports (Electronic Sports) Games may very well be a huge boost to Sarawak’s socio-economy in line with the state’s digital platform initiative.A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was yesterday signed between Sarawak E-sports Association (Sesa) and StartUpBorneo.MY (StartUp Borneo) on the sidelines of the Sarawak Career and Training Fair (SCAT Fair) 2019.
Sesa president Afiq Fadhli Narawi said the initiative is to empower the StartUp Borneo and E-sports committee as an ongoing effort to inspire the community, especially the youths of Sarawak who need exposure to the digital world.
“This move is in line with the state government initiatives to speed up the state’s development plan via digital economic transformation and the involvement of the youths.
“This collaboration, as an ongoing process, could draw the interest of the public to the digital industry as well as to enhance development through innovation and expertise available in our youths,” he said.
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27 FEBRUARY 2019 Master students and others got an extraordinary insight into how advanced space technologies can provide innovative strong solutions and new business on Earth, through presentations by seven world-leading space agencies at the International Space University last week.
Organised by ESA, the 2019 annual meeting of the Space Agencies Technology Transfer Officers (SATTO) group was hosted by the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg.
The President of ISU Juan de Dalmau opened the day with a warm welcoming note highlighting the importance of technology transfer and innovation from the space sector to our societies and the importance of a international, intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective to optimize the benefits.
This was followed by officers from JAXA, ESA, NASA, CNES, CSA, ASI and ISA presenting insight and exchanged knowledge and experiences in strategies, methods and challenges faced, leading up to a morning panel discussion on the space technology transfer themes.
The Head at JAXA for Strategic Planning and Industrial Promotion Takayuki Kawai highlighted systematically...